Alli Beery Warming Her Pearls ENGL 3790 3/31/14 Warming Her Pearls Carol Anne Duffy has always had a strong feminist theme running throughout all of her poems. Warming Her Pearls is a combination of both feminism and Marxism. There is a class conflict when it comes to the maid and her mistress. The maid is constantly thinking of her mistress‚ and it is likely that the mistress never thinks twice about her maid. While there is no relationship between a man and a woman‚ there are strong
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Pip’s uncle the blacksmith‚ Miss Havisham The rich old lady‚ Magwitch The convict and Pip’s benefactor Setting: Kent a town full of marshes by the river Point of View: Dialogue Theme(s): Becoming a gentleman and living in poverty‚ falling in love with a beautiful girl named Estella who is very rich. Summary: Pip is a young boy who lives in poverty with his sister Mrs. Joe and brother-in-law Joe who is a blacksmith. Pip is paid by Miss Havisham a very wealthy lady to play with
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Marr College Standard Grade English Folio: Reading A Critical Evaluation of “Shooting Stars” by Carol Ann Duffy “Shooting Stars‚” by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem that explores the theme of tragedy through the writer’s creation of haunting imagery and tells a story‚ like no other. Using techniques such as imagery‚ enjambment‚ structure and form‚ Duffy invites the reader to contemplate the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in World War II and to warn against the dangers of forgetting
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Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy – Analysis of Poem Summary of the poem… The poem details the inner conflict within a war photographer as he returns home to rural England after an assignment. Throughout the poem the photographer struggles to contain his feelings as the horrors he has witnessed resurface in his everyday life. The purpose of the poem is to demonstrate the suffering and devastation‚ both physically and emotionally‚ caused by war. THEMES In her poem Duffy deals with various themes
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However‚ on the other hand‚ Carol Ann Duffy structures her poem "Quickdraw" in contrast to Armitage by using only four‚ four- lined stanzas. I believe that Duffy uses this technique to write out her poem because she wants to represent the different stages of her semantic field‚ a western shoot- out. This is obvious in the first stanza‚ where it is suggesting the preparation of the shoot- out by saying‚ “I wear the two‚ the mobile and landline phones.” Duffy successfully uses the second stanza to
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strategies and by time‚ companies also developed and implemented some forms of the customer loyalty strategies as stated by Duffy (2005: 284). He also pointed some breakdowns in the past and their solutions in addition to the benefits of loyalty. Tepeci (1999:213)‚ Toh et al. (1993:214)‚ Pritchard and Howard (1997:214)‚ Hunter (1998:214) and Wong et al. (1999:214) agreed with Duffy (1998:435) that approaches need to be conducted in order to structure efficient customer loyalty. And these approaches fall
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injustice of the upper class’ control over the working class. Class distinction is evident in the characterization of Mrs. Joe and Miss Havisham. Mrs. Joe “always wore a coarse apron‚ fastened over her figure behind with two loops‚ and having a square impregnable bib in front‚ that was stuck full with pins and needles” (page 8). On the other hand‚ Miss Havisham “was dressed in rich materials – satins‚ and lace and silks” (page 57). Mrs. Joe’s appearance defines her as a blacksmith’s wife and of the
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wife‚ and lived frugally‚ and paid my debts‚ and maintained a constant correspondence with Biddy and Joe” (Dickens 450). Dickens insinuates that Pip’s life improves drastically once he realizes the people who truly care for and support him. Mrs Havisham and Estella never truly cared about Pip’s happiness and well-being; once Pip discovers their true intentions‚ he stops focusing so intently on making them happy and focuses on what actually matters to make himself happy. In addition to removing the
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The Reformation May 5‚ 2012 Final Paper The Voices of Morebath is a book by Eamon Duffy about the small parish of Morebath in England during the time of the Reformation. His book is a microhistory‚ focusing solely on a very small and specific area in time and space. This book‚ like all microhistories‚ seeks to help the reader understand a larger area of history by showing a great amount of detail about one specific area. It helps the reader come to terms with normal daily life‚ and gives a more
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biblical story which the women are portrayed to be ‘immoral and dangerous’’. Duffy has modernised this story and placed Salome as the narrator‚ whilst also fulfilling the expectations of a feminist text by challenging stereotypical ideas of conventional gender roles. It is interesting‚ however‚ that unlike other poems in the “Worlds Wife” ‘Salome’ has been received negatively as stated by Janet Lewison “Salome by Carol Ann Duffy: the ‘soul-lessness of cliché?”1. It can be argued that it is ‘soulless’
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